New answers tagged atmosphere
1
vote
How could oxygen levels have ever been higher if there is so little carbon dioxide present?
The assumptions you state are:
Oxygen only exists in the atmosphere, as either O2 or CO2
Carbon only exists in the atmosphere as CO2 and above surface in the form of organic matter
Oxidization of ...
- 1,998
0
votes
Coriolis effect and Cyclones
As the earth rotates, when air moves from near the poles towards the equator, the radius of that part of the earth is larger, which means, the ground is moving faster and the air lags behind. When the ...
- 121
1
vote
How could oxygen levels have ever been higher if there is so little carbon dioxide present?
It doesn't go anywhere, you don't need CO2 production to loose oxygen.
photosynthesis is water + CO2 into O2 and sugar. In this case the sugar is mostly cellulose. what happened in the carboniferous? ...
- 6,679
2
votes
Accepted
How could oxygen levels have ever been higher if there is so little carbon dioxide present?
Where did all the CO2 go?
Shell organisms stored it in the sediments and rocks in the form of CaCO3. This is known as the main sink of CO2.
There are other C sinks on the Earth, but lithosphere is ...
0
votes
Why does Earth's atmosphere have a whiter color near the horizon?
This pair of pictures shows that the sky is not only becoming more whitish. It also becomes more greenish.
On the left is a picture of a typical winter scene. On the right a filter is added, its ...
- 3,271
2
votes
Do I understand pressure coordinates in the right way?
In pressure coordinates it is common to use $\omega$ as the vertical velocity component instead of $w$ as in cartesian coordinates.
Obtaining the velocity components in the pressure coordinate system:...
- 965
2
votes
Accepted
Estimating atmospheric vertical motion from 3D fields in WRF output
After a bit of digging, it seems that vertically integrating the continuity equation in pressure coordinates (shown above) is a sound approach for estimating vertical motion in numerical model output ...
3
votes
My snarky cousin tossed a monkey into my ability to see large cloud at 300 miles HELP!
Your cousin isn't as crazy as you think. The calculation in the linked question assumes no intervening trees, buildings, hills, or mountains, but also assumes no atmospheric distortion and no ...
- 22.4k
2
votes
How to estimate altitude of tropopause of other planets?
The existence, and accordingly the height, of a tropopause depends on whether the other planets' atmosphere has a layer of ozone or any other gas that absorbs some part of incoming solar radiation ...
- 66
Top 50 recent answers are included